Mason&#39;s line guide for metal door bucks



Oct. 4, 1966 5. L. ANDREWS 3,276,129

MASON'S LINE GUIDE FOR METAL DOOR BUCKS I Filed June 2, 196

INVENTOR GEORGE LANDREWS ATTORNEYS United States Patent "ice 3,276,129MASONS LINE GUIDE FOR METAL DOOR BUCKS George L. Andrews, 1232 ToddsLane, Hampton, Va. Filed June 2, 1965, Ser. No. 460,697 6 Claims. (CI.3385) This invention relates to improvements in line holding guides foruse by masons.

An object of the present invention isto provide an improved line holdingguide which is adapted to be easily and quickly applied to metal doorbucks, or door frames, to facilitate the accurate laying up ofstructural units between a pair of such bucks, such, for example, ascement blocks, bricks or like units and the maintenance of the row ofsuch units in a proper straight line and at the proper elevation alongthe row.

Another object of the invention is to provide a guide line holder,designed to be used in pairs between adjacent sides of metal door bucks,and formed to slidably engage over or upon the edge of the wall adjacentflange of the buck and be held in position by the line connecting oneguide to another.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a device of thecharacter described, designed to be used in pairs as stated and held inposition by the guide line connecting the pair and also adapted to beeasily slid along the edge of the flange of the buck to which it isattached, so that the guide line can be readily moved up from one courseof blocks or brick, to the proper elevation for the laying of the nextcourse.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a guide lineholding device of the above described character which is formed in suchmanner that a line attached thereto can be maintained parallel with andin close proximity to the top horizontal edge of a course of blocks orbricks without interfering with the laying or placing of the same inposition.

It is also an object of the invention to provide a guide line holdingdevice which is formed in a novel manner to facilitate the easyattachment of a line to the device while it is mounted in position upona flange of the door buck.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of thefollowing detailed description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, with the understanding that the invention is not confined to astrict conformity with the showing of the drawings but may be changed ormodified, so long as such changes or modifications mark no materialdeparture from the salient features of the invention as defined by theappended claims.

In the drawings:

FIGURE 1 is a perspective view illustrating a conventional type of metaldoor buck flanked on two sides by incompletely constructed walls,together with one side of an adjacent door buck, between which and thefirst buck the wall is being set up, and showing a pair of guide lineholding devices in operative position and constructed in accordance withone embodiment of the intion.

FIGURE 2 is a detailed view on an enlarged scale showing the mounting ofone device upon a flange of the door bucks, looking in the direction ofthe arrows from the section line 2--2 of FIGURE 3.

FIGURE 3 is a horizonal section taken substantially on the line 33 ofFIGURE 2 through a portion of one buck only.

FIGURE 4 is a perspective view showing a modified form of the holdershown in FIGURES l to 3.

FIGURE 5 is a perspective view showing another modified embodiment ofthe line holder, designed for attachment to flanges of different widths.

3,276,129 Patented Oct. 4, 1966 Referring now more particularly to thedrawings, there is shown in perspective in FIGURE 1 a metal door buck orframe which is generally designated 10 and a side portion of a seconddoor buck, or frame, which is generally designated 12. Between adjacentsides of the twobucks is a partially constructed wall 14 here shown asbeing made up of conventional blocks such as cement blocks or cinderblocks, although these may also represent bricks or any other unitsdesigned to make up the desired wall.

In laying up the courses of block units, it is desirable to have ameans, such as a guide line, to insure that the blocks are placed inproper alignment so that a perfectly vertical face can be obtained forthe wall. The device of the present invention in its differentembodiments is designed when used in a pair, to maintain the guide line,designated 16, in a parallel plane with the vertical face of the wall orwith the top, inner or outer edge of a course of blocks by providing aguide for the placement of the blocks.

As the door bucks illustrated are of the same form, the same referencecharacters will be employed for designating the different parts thereof.

Each door buck comprises the spaced parallel jambs 18 connected at thetop ends by the head 20. The inner faces of the jambs and the under faceof the head are formed to provide the usual door stop 22.

The front or outside face of the frame which borders the jambs and thehead, is designated 24 while the inside or rear of the frame has thebordering inside face or flange 26. The outer face portion 24 of theframe is relatively wide or it may be of the same width as the insideface flange 26 and these inside and outside faces or flanges areparallel as shown in FIGURE 3.

The outer or front face flange is bordered by the inwardly projecting orrearwardly projecting flange 28 which is parallel with the jamb 18.

The line guide of the present invention, as illustrated in FIGURES 1 to3, is generally designated 30. This consists of a plate of suitablematerial, preferably aluminum, although it may be made of any othersuitable material 'or suitable metal, and the numeral 32 designates thebody of the device. The body 32 has the longitudinal edges 34 and 36while the numerals 38 and 40 designate the transverse outer end edge andthe inner transversely rounded edge 40, respectively.

The rounded inner edge extends only a part of the way across thetransverse or vertical width of the plate body and joins or is continuedinto the reverted flange 42 which is in spaced relation with the body 32thus forming the recess '44 in which is clasped the free longitudinaledge 46 of'the flange 28 when the device is mounted in operativeposition upon the door buck, as shown in FIG- URE 3.

The longitudinal edges 34 and 36 of the plate body 32 have formedtherein and substantially in alignment transversely of the plate body,the spaced line engaging notches 48 and 50.

The plate body is formed in the part thereof between the notch 50 andits inner end, with the offset tongue 52, the offset being in thedirection away from the side of the plate opposite from the flange 42.The tongue 52 has the front and rear edge notches 54 and 56respectively. It will be seen that the rounded edge 40 terminates shortof the inner end edge of the tongue in which the notch 50 is formed.

In the use of the embodiment of the line guide device thus fardescribed, it will be seen that a pair of such devices are applied tothe opposed spaced flanges 28 of a door buck by engaging the rear edge46 of the flange in the recess 44 formed between the flange 42 of thedevice and the body 32. The length of the body is preferably such as toposition the end portion which is opposite from the flange 42, beyondthe front face 24 of the frame or buck structure so that at least aportion of each notch 48 and 50 is located so that free access may behad thereto to Wrap a portion of the guide line 16 around the body inthe recesses 48 and 50.

The tongues 52 may be disposed to extend downwardly or they may bepositioned to extend upwardly or to be in an upright position, as may bedesired merely by reversing or switching the units. When placed inposition the notch 54 at the inner end of the device Will be located sothat the line when placed therein to extend to the same notch of theopposite device, will be in proper position of alignment with the topforward or outer edge of the underlying course of block or brick units.

As illustrated in broken lines in FIGURE 3, the line may be fixed in anysuitable manner to the tongue after passing through the inwardly facingnotch 54, as, for example, it may then be wrapped or passed across theunderside of the tongue and engaged in the inner notch 56 and cross theouter side of the tongue and then passed back across the inner side andup to and wrapped around the plate between the notches 48 and 50 andsecured with a suitable knot.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated in FIG- URE 4, thedevice, which is here generally designated 130, differs from the form ofthe device designated 30, in the formation of the body plate 132 at theouter end of the latter where the top and bottom edges 134 and 136 arecut at an angle to converge in the direction of the inner edge 138. Thedevice otherwise is constructed in the same manner as the device 30.

A second embodiment of the invention is shown in FIGURE 5, which isgenerally designated 230. In the second embodiment the body plate 232 ismade of materially greater length than the body plates 30 and 130 andthe longitudinal edges 234 and 236 are provided with a series ofoppositely positioned notches 248 and 250. In this embodiment the deviceis made so that it may be applied to bucks in which the flange portion228 may be of a Width greater than the flanges for which the devices 30and 130 are designed. Thus the greater length of the body 232 willposition a number of the transversely spaced notches 248450 so that theguide line may be easily attached thereto.

In the embodiment designated 230 it will be seen that the offset tongue252 may be made only with a single notch 254 which would be in the innerend edge of the plate, whereby when the line 16 is engaged in the notchit can be passed between the tongue and the adjacent flange 228,forwardly across the face of the plate and then wrapped around the plateto be engaged into oppositely positioned notches 248-250 and tied inplace.

In all instances the devices when set up in a pair in the mannerdescribed, would have the notches of the tongue portions thereofdisposed so that the guide line extending between the guide devices orline holding devices may be drawn taut and lie approximately in theplane of the inner edges of the flanges 28 and 228.

It will also be seen that the line guides when connected by thetightened or taut line 16, will not only be firmly held in positionagainst accidental slipping but also they can be manually forcedupwardly or downwardly, that is, slid along the edge of the supportingflange to raise or lower the line as may be desired or place it in anyother desired position. Thus it will be seen that there is provided bythe present invention a relatively simple line holding device which whenin use will add greatly to the ability of the mason to lay the buildingunits accurately and speedily. Also the devices may be made light inweight and are of relatively small size so that they can be convenientlycarried with other tools.

As this invention may be embodied in several forms without departingfrom the spirit or essential characteristics thereof, the presentembodiment is therefore illustrative and not restrictive, since thescope of the inven tion is defined by the appended claims rather than bythe description preceding them, and all changes that fall within themetes and bounds of the claims or that form their functional as well asconjointly cooperative equivalents, are therefore intended to beembraced by those claims.

I claim:

1. A masons line guide for attachment to a metal door buck having avertical flange, said guide comprising a plate having two ends andlongitudinally extending edges, a flange extending in the transversedirection of the plate along one portion of one of said ends and spacedfrom one side face of the plate and forming with said side face a recessin which an edge of the said vertical flange of the door buck may beengaged, said flange of said plate having one end terminating asubstantial distance short of one longitudinal edge of the plate, atongue forming an extension of the plate at the said one longitudinaledge and at the said one of said ends of the plate and being in a planeoffset from the plane of the opposite side of the plate, saidlongitudinal edges of the plate having notches therein at the side ofsaid tongue remote from the said one of said ends of the plate, saidtongue having a side edge which forms another portion of the said one ofsaid ends of the plate and said side edge of the tongue having a lineattaching notch formed therein.

2. The invention according to claim 1 wherein said flange forms anintegral continuation of the material of the plate turned back into thesaid spaced relation with the said one side face of the plate.

3. The invention according to claim 1 wherein the said longitudinallyextending edges are in substantially parallel relation and the plate isof materially greater length than width and wherein a plurality of saidnotches are formed in each of said longitudinal edges.

4. The invention according to claim 1 wherein the tongue has a notchformed in a side edge opposite from the first mentioned notch.

5. A masons line guide for attachment to a metal door buck having avertical flange, said guide comprising a plate body having front andrear ends, the plate body at the rear end being extended in a portion ofits width into a reverted flange which is spaced from one side face ofthe plate and forms therewith a recess adapted to receive the edge ofthe said vertical flange of a door buck, the plate body havinglongitudinal edge portions, one of said edge portions of the plate bodybeing extended into a tongue member which is late-rally offset from theopposite side face of the body and has .a narrow neck portion at the endthereof where it joins the plate body and a wider terminal end portion,said tongue having a notch in the edge thereof nearest to said revertedflange, and each of said edge portions of the body having a notchtherein adapted to receive a portion of an end of a guide line engagedin the notch in the tongue.

6. The invention as defined by claim 5, wherein the plate body in theportion thereof between the notches in the longitudinal edge portionsand the front end of the body is of greater width than the portion ofthe body between said notches and the rear end of the plate body.

No references cited.

LEONARD FORMAN, Primary Examiner.

1. A MASON''S LINE GUIDE FOR ATTACHMENT TO A METAL DOOR BUCK HAVING AVERTICAL FLANGE, SAID GUIDE COMPRISING A PLATE HAVING TWO ENDS ANDLONGITUDINALLY COMPRISING EDGES, A FLANGE EXTENDING IN THE TRANSVERSEDIRECTION OF THE PLATE ALONG ONE PORTION OF ONE OF SAID ENDS AND SPACEDFROM ONE SIDE FACE OF HE PLATE AND FORMING WITH SAID SIDE FACE A RECESSIN WHICH AN EDGE OF THE SAID VERTICAL FLANGE OF THE DOOR BUCK MAY BEENGAGED, SAID FLANGE OF SAID PLATE HAVING ONE END TERMINATING ASUBSTANTIAL DISTANCE SHORT OF ONE LONGITUDINAL EDGE OF THE PLATE, ATONGUE FORMING AN EXTENSION OF THE PLATE AT THE SAID ONE LONGITUDINALEDGE AND AT THE SAID ONE OF SAID ENDS OF THE PLATE AND BEING IN A PLANEOFFSET FROM THE PLANE OF THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE PLATE, SAIDLONGITUDINAL EDGES OF THE PLATE HAVING NOTCHES THEREIN AT THE SIDE OFSAID TONGUE REMOTE FROM THE SAID ONE OF SAID ENDS OF THE PLATE, SAIDTONGUE HAVING A SIDE EDGE WHICH FORMS ANOTHER PORTION OF THE SAID ONE OFSAID ENDS OF THE PLATE AND SAID SIDE EDGE OF THE TONGUE HAVING A LINEATTACHING NOTCH FORMED THEREIN.